Applications In Statistics: What's Hot / What's Next V

Conference Agenda, March 18, 2000

Siena College & Albany NY Chapter American Statistical Association
 
 
 
 
 
 
Time
Event 
Location 
8:00 - 8:55 AM
 Registration and Continental Breakfast
 Siena Hall Lobby[Map: Building  #1]
9:05 - 9:55  Welcoming Remarks:   Jim Nolan, Dean Siena College, Chitra Rajan, Vice President Institutional Research & Planning, Siena College, Andrew Reilly, President, Albany Chapter ASA Roger Bacon Auditorium, (RB202) [Map: Building  #5]
Keynote Address:  Katherine Abraham, 

Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics [abstract]

Measuring the New Economy

 RB202
10:05-10:55
  Panel: 'Applications In Statistics -
What's Hot / What's Next?'
 RB202
 Gerald Hahn, GE R&D Center [abstract]
  Lloyd Lininger, Chairman, Dept of Biometry & Statistics [abstract]
  Kajal Lahiri, Professor, Dept of Economics [abstract]
  James Nolan, Dean, Siena College (Moderator)  [abstract]
11:05-12:05
Concurrent Sessions
Topics in Time Series
 Siena Hall, S218
Session 1
Sanghamitra Senapati, Igor Zurbenko & Robert Henry
 El Nino Oscillation of Surface Temperature Over the United States [abstract] 11:05-11:20
Pen-Che Ho
 A Time Series Analysis for the Live Births in the United States [abstract] 11:20-11:35
Alexia Iasonos & Igor Zurbenko
 Snow Melt Estimation [abstract] 11:35-11:50
Session 2
Special Session:
Practical Applications in Geographical Information Systems
Siena Hall, S318
Todd Nelson, NYSD of Labor Visualizing Large Databases using GIS [abstract] 11:05-11:20
11:20-11:35
Randy Nattis, University at Albany Updating Facility Locations at DEC  [abstract]
11:35-11:50
Jonathan Skinner, Stiefel Research Institute Some Statistical Fallacies Encountered in Phamaceutical Research  [abstract]
12:05-12:55
Luncheon 
 Foy Campus Center Rathskeller[Map: Building  #4]
1:05-1:55
Panel: 'Outcomes in Education Assessment'
 RB202
Chitra Rajan, Siena VP for Insitiutional Planning & Research [abstract]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

S-318
Gary Blose, University at Albany  [abstract]
James Nolan, Dean Siena College [abstract]
Dr. Andrew Reilly, Wadsworth Labs, NYSDOHealth and Albany SPH (Moderator)
 
Special Session: MAPINFO 
2:05-2:55
Panel: 'Applications in Labor Statistics'
D.O.L.L.A.R.S. & C.E.N.T.S
(Department of Labor's Loquacious Anslysts from Research and Statistics: Current Employment of New Technologies and Statistics)
 RB202
Francisco Menendez, NYSD of Labor [abstract]
Mycroft Sowizral, NYSD of Labor [abstract]
Douglas Reamer, NYSD of Labor   [abstract]
Laura Close, NYSD of Labor          [abstract]
Thomas A. Rodick, NYD of Labor  (Moderator)
2:05-2:55
Concurrent Sessions
Statistical Methods: Overcoming Obstacles in Applications
 Siena Hall, S218
Session 3 Nandini Chattergee An Empirical Study Using Survey of Consumer Finance  [abstract] 2:05-2:20
2:20-2:35
Lech Hubicki Practical and Teoretical Apects of Data Anlaysis when the Data Set has Missing Critical Observations [abstract]
2:35-2:50 
Shiqun Li Probabilistic Matching and its Application to Public Health Research  [abstract]
2:05-2:55
Topics in Quality and Education
 Siena Hall, S314
Session 4 Jorge Luis Romeu, IITRI-Rome Statistical Education at AMPTIAC: One Year Later  [abstract] 2:05-2:20
Joyce Nilsson Orsini: Director of The Deming 
Scholars MBA Program at Fordham University; and President and Trustee of 
The W. Edwards Deming Institute		 Some Problems with Individual Control Charts, as Taught and as Practiced [abstract] 2:20-2:35
Donald Neal and Mark Vangel Statistically Based Design Values for Small Samples [abstract] 2:35-2:50 
  Siena Hall, S318
3:05-3:55
Medical Applications in Statistics
 Siena Hall, S314
Session 5
Xaing Yang Ye, U Albany School of Public Health
 Nonlinear Robust Estimation of Unknown Concentrations from Serial Dilution Assays [abstract] 3:05-3:20 

 
Larry Lessner, NYSD of Health and U Albany School of Public Health
 Finding the Appropriate Scale for a Continuous Covariate: a modeling issue for many linear models.[abstract] 3:20-3:35 

 
Andrew Reilly, NYSD of Health and U Albany School of Public Health
 X-ray Mammography: Preliminary Tack on Improving Its Diagnostic Accuracy [abstract]
3:35-3:50
3:05-3:55
Special Session(Repeated): MAPINFO
 Siena Hall, S318
4:05 - 4:30
Conference Wrap-up and Presentation of Awards.
 RB202

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